Mir Imran, Chairman and CEO of InCube Labs, discusses his role helping people from various disciplines communicate with each other in the pursuit of scientific progress.…Read More
To Move Innovations Forward, Sometimes You Need a ‘Translator’
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Biomedical Innovation Takes a Lot of Cooperation – and a Little Serendipity
The most fundamental discoveries often occur when an experiment doesn’t turn out as planned. Authors Lawton R. Burns, Mark Pauly, and Philip Rea discuss the element of serendipity in the life sciences.…Read More
Symbiont Practices in Boundary Spanning: Bridging the Cognitive and Political Divides in Interdisciplinary Research
Organizing for interdisciplinary research must overcome two challenges to collaboration: the cognitive incommensurability of knowledge and the political economy of research based in the disciplines. Researchers may not engage in interdisciplinarity because they would have to invest in new knowledge unrelated to their discipline or risk losing career-related rewards.…Read More